8/03 It's Thursday evening in Kachele and we normally all gather on a soccer field outside the big thatch where we eat together. What a fantastic evening this is. And to look at people that you love and live with. People that have the same passion, and to just realise the privillege we have to be together. This week, as I was in Kapiri Nissi, I met two Care Workers. One's name is Ruth and Judith is the name of the other lady. Judith is our 0 - 5 Champion, and Ruth is our cook. They arrive seven o'clock at the Care Point every morning. If it's going well, they leave by two o'clock in the afternoon, all by themselves, going home to be alone with children. I asked Judith, who's about my age, I said to Judith, "How do you survive if you spend so much time at the Care Point every day?" And she said to me, "I'm doing piece jobs." I said, explain to me what does it mean to do piece jobs? She said maybe somebody will come to her with a huge bucket full of dirty clothing and they will ask her to wash it, and she said she will start at two o'clock and she might finish at five o'clock in the afternoon. And she said if that happens her heart is so full of joy. I said, Judith, "How much will you get for that?" She said, "Well, if people are generous, I can get up to 30 Kwacha!" 30 Kwacha is one and a half US dollars. For Judith, a good day is to start seven o'clock in the morning to serve the children that she so passionately loves, and then to go home and to trust God to give her, an elderly lady now, a massive bucket full of dirty clothing, and she will go on her knees and she washes that, and then she gets paid one and a half dollars to look after her and her grandchildren. I'm standing here and I'm watching the Kachele community and we've got a fire going. We've got fish on there. I watch people talk and laugh and children cycle and swinging on that huge swing on a tree. And I'm thinking, "God, you are good. You are so, so good to me." But how focused am I to make life easier? And how aware am I of people like Judith and Ruth? May God help us to be a major blessing, and may we have grateful hearts counting our blessings every day.